Webmail Tutorial

Introduction
Recommended Schemes
Signing On
The Inbox
Reading Email
Composing and Sending Email
Using Folders
The Addressbook
Setting Preferences
Filters
Quotas
Logging Out
FAQ

Use Webmail

The Webmail Inbox

Once you successfully sign in to Webmail you will see your inbox. The first 50 messages in your Inbox are displayed and arranged in decreasing order by date. The first email in the list is the most recent one you have received. To read an email, click on the subject of the email.

There are several symbols here to give you information about your messages. An open envelope represents a message that has been read, while a sealed envelope is an unread message. A paperclip indicates a message with an attachment. The boxes to the right of the message are for selecting messages, with the very top box for selecting all the messages.

You can sort your email here by other criteria as well: by unread mail, attachments, subject line, sender, and size of the message. Click on the appropriate heading once to sort by ascending order in this category, and click the heading a second time to sort in descending order.

If you have more than 50 messages in your inbox, not all your messages will be displayed here. They will be shown on additional pages, 50 per page. This default can be changed in your account settings if you would prefer to see more or fewer messages at a time. You can navigate between pages using the Prev Page and Next Page links at the top and the bottom of the screen as well as the page selection dropdown box between them.

You can organize your email from this screen:

• Beware that if you move or delete messages, they will not be available to Eudora. Only move messages out of the inbox if you are using Webmail as your primary email client.
• Select messages by clicking in the checkbox at the beginning of the message listing. You can select all messages on this screen by clicking in the topmost checkbox.
• To move messages into a folder:
• select the appropriate folder using the dropdown box at the top or bottom of the screen
• click the Save Selected in: button.
• to delete these messages:
  • click the Delete Selected button on either the top or bottom of the page.

If you have other folders besides your inbox, you will have a "+" next to your Inbox on the menu. Click the "+" to expand the menu to show your other local folders. Click on a folder name to bring up a screen that works exactly like the Inbox but accesses that folder.

Always be sure to use the navigation tools provided in Webmail. If you use your browser's Back and Forward buttons, you may confuse the Webmail program. The results of this could include lost e-mail, sending mail multiple times, and even crashing the program.